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The year 2778, also known as 1937, was destined to be an unquiet year. Well, there have been few quiet days in the history of mankind. However, this year is a little different, with the Spanish Civil War in full swing and the intervention of many countries, the international situation has suddenly become tense after the First World War.

At the same time, with the expiration of the Washington Naval Treaty, the global powers began to build their navies again this year. The most irritating of the Great Powers were the two new ships of the Soviet Union.

When the data on the two new Soviet battleships were published, the whole world was stunned. They have an unprecedented size of more than 60,000 tons, a perverted 18-inch main gun, and a staggering speed of more than 28 knots.

What the hell is this...... It's a mud horse!

Britain, France, and Germany are going crazy for some reason, especially the Germans, who are about to explode. These two super battleships are deployed in the Baltic Sea, and there are suddenly two more monsters next door to Nima, so it's no wonder that the Germans slept well.

It is no secret that the two Soviet ships were bought from the United States and Japan, so they accused the United States and Japan of being unruly and actually making such a thing that obviously exceeded the standard for Maozi. The United States and Japan retorted unequivocally, claiming that the Soviet Union was not a signatory to the Washington Treaty, so it was not subject to treaty restrictions, and that the treaty did not explicitly stipulate that signatory countries should also follow the treaty when building warships for non-signatory countries.

We all know that because of the intrigue between the great powers, the "Washington Treaty" itself is a stuff full of loopholes, and there are too many loopholes in it, so strictly speaking, this really can't be regarded as a breach of contract between the United States and Japan, at most even if they play a side ball. And it is true that the United States and Japan did not build it for themselves, but only for the Soviet Union.

So the two sides began to talk about it, and the United States and Japan bit it to death: "As long as it is something that is not specified in the article, Lao Tzu can do it, so Lao Tzu did not breach the contract." Britain, Germany, France and other countries have been scolding for a while, but there is no way, it is impossible to fight for this matter. In addition, the "Washington Treaty" expired on December 31 last year, and no one has any intention of renewing it, so from this year, the "Washington Treaty" has officially expired, in other words, everyone can build as they please.

As a result, Britain, Germany, France, and Italy all announced the construction of a new generation of battleships. As mentioned earlier, the technological level of this plane has developed faster than the original time and space, especially since the First World War has been extended for more than a year, resulting in the battleship with 16-inch main guns in the late stage of the First World War. Now, seventeen years later, the level of science and technology is higher than during World War I, and the standard of this new generation of battleships is naturally rising.

Like the fourteen- and fifteen-inch mainstream super-dreadnoughts during the First World War, they are now completely outdated, and they are okay to use as old generals, but they are too outdated to build new. As the top powers of the earth, in this era, you are embarrassed to build a ship of this level, and you are embarrassed to sail out to meet people.

The performance standards of the new ships announced by these countries cannot be lower than those of Maozi's new ships, so the 18-inch main gun, the 60,000-ton standard row, and the speed of 28 knots are the entry standards. How else can the superiority of the capitalist system over the public economy be demonstrated?

As a result of the naval build-up, the level of interference in Spain began to decline considerably. The instigator of this arms race is, quite unexpectedly, the opium cow. They were the first to announce a new big construction plan - the "Lion-class super battleship", and the Lion-class in this plane is much stronger than the namesake of the original plane. Its blueprint was a St. Andrew-class battleship that was canceled after the treaty, and now Niu Niu has turned the St. Andrew-class out again, modified it and renamed it the Lion-class.

The Lion-class is equipped with three triple 18-inch 48-diameter main guns, a maximum speed of 28.5 knots, and a standard displacement of 60,000 tons, and it is expected to build four ships. As soon as the news of the opium cow was released, it immediately detonated the global naval community.

The old enemy Germany reacted immediately. The mustache declared that the great Great German Reich must have the best battleships. So they turned out the H-class battleships that they planned during World War I and abandoned after the Washington Treaty, and after some magic changes, named them "Deutschland-class", and also built four ships.

The "Deutsche class" in this plane is not a pocket battleship, it is a serious super battleship. It has a 66,000-ton standard row, a maximum speed of 28.8 knots, and four twin 480 mm 52 times the diameter main gun (the German double diameter algorithm is different, their 52 times the diameter is 50 times the diameter of the mainstream algorithm). Well, this main gun they are still at the development stage.

The French immediately followed suit and announced plans to build their new ship, the Gascony-class. On this plane, the French built three Richelieu-class ships during the treaty, and their performance was naturally higher than that of the original time and space, and the layout was still two quadruple main guns with full front, the caliber was expanded to 420 mm, and the displacement was increased to 45,000 tons.

But they now find that Sister Li, who has just served, seems to be outdated, and she must not be able to carry the German class next door, nor can she compare to the lion class of the Yiyi family. The proud French, of course, did not want to admit defeat, so the fourth Gascony of the Richelieu class was cancelled immediately, and they immediately redesigned the new super-battleship, and the name Gascony was adopted as the class name of the new battleship.

Their Gascony-class is also ready for 470 mm cannons, and the standard displacement is also more than 60,000 tons. Originally, they wanted to enlarge on the basis of Sister Li, so that it would save a lot of trouble. But soon their designers found that if they still used a quadruple main gun like Sister Li, the turret would be too heavy, which would greatly affect the turret response speed. So it had to be redesigned and modified into a battleship with a traditional layout similar to the three triple main guns of the United States and Japan. At present, this class of battleships is still being designed, and it is estimated that construction will not start until the end of the year at the earliest.

The Italians on their own plane were beaten out by the Allies because they were on the wrong side in World War I, and the navy was completely destroyed, the colonies were lost, and the northern industrial areas were completely destroyed. In the post-war Washington Naval Treaty, although they also achieved the same share as France, their finances could not support this kind of large-scale construction at all, so no new battleships came out, and the Veneto-class battleships of the original time and space were gone.

After the fascist party came to power, the integration of the country, together with the mutual economic circle of the allies, finally improved the economic situation, and the reconstruction of the navy began. However, the ensuing economic crisis once again disrupted their plans, and the Francisco Caracciolo-class treaty battleships, which they had originally designed in 1928, were also delayed due to the economic crisis.

In other words, the unlucky Yiduli has not even had a single battleship for more than ten years. However, in the current atmosphere, Italy cannot continue to wait and see. After Britain, France and Germany announced the big construction plan, Prime Minister Mussolini also tightened his belt and announced the big construction plan for Italy.

The originally postponed Francisco Caracciolo class is directly unwanted, Italy may lack everything, but the most important thing is the designer, so they came up with a new plan, this class of battleship is also called the Veneto class, of course, much larger than the original time and space, and the weapon is also a 460 mm class main gun.

At the beginning of old Europe, then China and the United States, as the top powers, naturally could not be left behind, they did not even need to redesign, they could directly change the drawings built for the Soviets, and they did not even need to change them.

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In fact, the opium cows had no choice but to provoke an arms race this time, which was a way for them to try to divert their attention, and the main reason was caused by the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Civil War caused the intervention of many forces, and Germany, Italy, China, Japan, the Soviet Union and France all ended up directly, which made Britain feel worried, and they were very worried that it would cause a world war, which was not impossible.

It's not that the British love peace, they don't want to fight another world war. They lost the throne of the overlord of the earth during the First World War, and there were too many dead people in the country, and half of the money they had saved over hundreds of years was empty. They are no longer the empire on which the sun never sets in the world, not to mention that the old rival Erdezi does not buy it, the Yankees will not buy it, the distant China and the Soviet Union will certainly not buy it, and even the good friend Gallic chicken is also against the yang and yin.

After the end of the naval treaty and the learning of the new ships of the Soviet Union, now they finally felt that they had found a way to divert the attention of the great powers, and that was to build a navy.

However, although this method is too expensive, it is really effective, and the big hooligans who were still fighting in Spain are in a hurry to build and reduce their intervention. After all, they had little interest in Spain, mainly to test new weapons and conduct sales. Especially in Germany and Italy, they are in a hurry to build large, and it is impossible to spend much time on Spain. However, the Soviet Union and China were not affected, and their plans for large-scale construction were already in place and did not affect Spain's actions.

In fact, the Spanish Civil War was a worse war, both warring sides were bad, and in the history of the original time and space, it was the not-so-bad Franco who overturned the rotten republican government. But once this happens on this plane,

So General Franco was tragic, he and the national army did not have any advantage, but because the republican government was too bad, and there was the support of Germany and Italy and other countries to hold on. But the republican government has strong support from the Third International and the People's Revolutionary Union, and now his two biggest financiers and supporters don't want to play, so he's still playing.

However, there was no end to it, and at this time, several American consortia took over the baton, and they began to replace Germany and Italy, and gradually became Franco's supporters. The idea of the Americans is actually very simple, just spend a little money, you can let the old Europe continue to stop, of course this kind of business is done, anyway, it is not the Americans who die. The Americans provided Franco's National Army with a large amount of weapons and supplies to support him in continuing the fight.

And at this time, a previously inconspicuous middle force rose rapidly in the midst of the civil war. The original social contradictions in Spain were very fierce, the social polarization was very serious, either left or right, and those who came to power were either left or right, almost forgetting that there are middle-of-the-road political forces in this country.

But we know that there is a huge variable in China. At a time when the left and right factions were fighting, the Spanish Socialist Coalition Party, an intermediate force that Wen Zong really supported, took advantage of this opportunity to rise. This party used to be a small, obscure party whose mission was center-right, pro-social reform, but opposition-opposed to overly drastic social change.

The left and right factions fought for more than a year, and the ugliness of both factions was also revealed, and the Spaniards were tortured. The Spaniards, who had had had enough of their passions, also began to resent this civil war. So in these months, the Spanish Socialist Union Party has grown considerably.

With such a toss, the situation in Spain has undergone a fundamental change, from the left and right to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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September 25, 2778 (1937), Jiuquan base.

At a time when the international situation is turbulent, China is still advancing step by step according to its own plan. On the one hand, the world sells arms softly, and on the other hand, he continues to farm at home, and at the same time finds time to go to other countries to make some small moves, such as Spain. This is called "mushrooms in hand, no panic in the heart".

After the major powers announced their plans for the Great Construction, China followed suit. This is also the first time after the Washington Treaty that China has built a battleship for itself, this class of battleship is also the magic reform of Yamato, of course, it is also sold to the Soviet Union, but there is still a big difference between the two. China's own models, the magic change is more. At the same time, China is also afraid that the world will not be chaotic to announce that we will start construction of a more pillbox super battleship next year, which is expected to use 520 mm caliber main guns and have a displacement of about 80,000 tons.

However, these things are not in the eyes of Wen Deji now. He was at the Jiuquan base at this time, watching a rocket launch. Yes, now the bridge has been built, but it still cannot completely replace the launch vehicle, this thing still has to be used as a technical reserve. In addition, this is China's first manned spaceflight launch mission, and now the technology of launching manned spacecraft by carrier rocket is very mature. So for the sake of insurance, the first manned mission was launched with a rocket.

At 8:00 a.m., Lieutenant Colonel Huang Qi, the mission pilot, wearing a bulky space suit, smiled and waved his hand to the camera lens, and with the assistance of ground crew, he took the elevator of the launch tower to the upper part of the Thang Long 2 rocket and drilled into the Shenzhou-2 spaceship.

Huang Qi, the word Xingye, 32 years old. He fought as Chile in the All-Out War in South America and last year in the Spanish Civil War, in which he shot down 25 enemy planes and was a well-known ace pilot in the Chinese Air Force. In the selection of astronauts, he stood out from many pilot candidates to carry out the first manned space mission of a human on his own plane.